Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel

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Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel (born October 18, 1749 in Halberstadt , † September 27, 1822 ) was a German doctor and art collector.

Life

Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel was the son of the Halberstadt doctor Friedrich Gottfried Abel (1714–1794) and his second wife Katharina Marie Magdalena born. Giant. His grandfather was the important historian and poet Caspar Abel .

Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel practiced in Mülheim am Rhein before moving to Düsseldorf in 1784 . In 1809 he campaigned strongly for the reorganization of the medical system in the Grand Duchy of Berg . Johann Georg Müller (1780–1842) dedicated his dissertation to the members of the Düsseldorf Medical College, whose board of directors was Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel at that time. Abel was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle .

In addition to his medical work, Abel was very interested in the fine arts. From the years 1796 and 1797 there is a correspondence with Gleim about the portrait of Gleim by Johann Peter von Langer, which is in the process of being created . Abel was related by marriage to Klamer Schmidt .

November 1792 Abel freed Johann Wolfgang Goethe from lumbago in the house of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi zu Pempelfort . Goethe was there on the way back from the campaign in France , but does not mention it in the report.

Tomb

The doctor's grave was described by J. Liebesleben in his book Düsseldorf's most beautiful churchyard monuments . The tomb was located in the evangelical section of the “ Düsseldorfer Leichenhof ” in the middle of the fourth row of the second field, was about 5 feet high and adorned with a tear urn framed by laurel branches. On the front it bore the inscription “This common stone denotes the slumber place of the former K. Pr. Medizinalraths Joh. Gotthilf Lebrecht Abel * d. Oct. 18, 1749, † d. Sept. 27, 1822, like that of his mother, the widowed doctor Maria Cath. Abel, b. Giant, * d. Aug. 3, 1731, † d. 16 Aug 1819 ".

On the back of the stone was a poem that went into Abel's work as a doctor and his interests as an art lover:

In the quiet realms of peace,
Waiting for the reward of the all-repentant,
mother and son rest here.
She was a mother without equal;
Friends friend, he was the consolation of the sufferer,
And the faithful patron of the beautiful.
Grace give God for Christ's suffering,
The two still united in death.

Works

  • Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel and Philipp Adolf Boehmer: Resp. PA Boehmer. De Regimine in febribus acutis moderato optimo, etc , 1771.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann G. Müller, Sabine Graumann: The Bergheim district around 1827. Prussian inventory of the country and its population , Böhlau 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-29305-5 , p. 4 f.
  2. ↑ http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=771
  3. ↑ Effi Biedrzynski : Goethe's Weimar. The lexicon of people and scenes. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1064-0 , p. 155.
  4. ↑ J. Liebesleben (ed.): Düsseldorf's most beautiful churchyard monuments. For special use by builders, sculptors and stone carvers, Düsseldorf 1830, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Johann Gotthelf Leberecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Johann; Abel, Johannes Gotthilf Leberecht; Abel, Johann Lebrecht; Abel, Joannes Gotthilf Lebrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1822